Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell (21 February 1935 – 9 October 2013)[1] was a Brazilian film, stage and television actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director.

[3] She had a major role as a prostitute in Anselmo Duarte's Keeper of Promises (1962), a Brazilian drama that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1963 and won the Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival in 1962.

[4] Earlier that same year, she caused major controversy after appearing nude in a scene of the Ruy Guerra film Os Cafajestes.

[5] In 1987, she directed her first film, Eternamente Pagu, a biography of Patrícia Galvão.

[7] Bengell died from lung cancer aged 78 in Rio de Janeiro on 9 October 2013.